EXCLUSIVE: Another 80s music icon is getting the biopic treatment as TriStar has set J.C. Lee to write the screenplay for TriStar Pictures’ Boy George biopic that is currently in development.
The pic will be produced by Oscar winning producer Cathy Schulman, George’s manager Paul Kemsley, Jeremy M. Rosen and Kevin King Templeton along with Primary Wave Music.
Boy George will executive producer. Still in early development, the film will include music from Boy George and Culture Club, to which Primary Wave Music owns the rights.
Lee will adapt the screenplay from Boy George’s autobiographies, Take It Like A Man, Straight and Karma and focus on the smash success years of Culture Club.
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